Typographic numbering-machine.



PATENTEB SEPT. 4, 1906.

MACHINE.

IGATIOH FILED NOV. 1905.

TYPOGRAPQIG NUM 3 SHEETS-SHEET l.

A TTOR NE 1''.

I J. A, LOYSTER. TYPOGRAPHIC NUMBERENG MACH APPLICATION FILED 1107.4,190i

UNITED JAMES A. LOYSTER, OF

CAZENOVIA, NEW YORK.

TYPOGFKAPHIC NUMBERlNG-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept/i, 1906.

Application filed November 4, 1905; Serial No. 285,827.

To (0/1 when] it 771/11 concern.- Be it known that -l, J AMES A. Lorsran, of Cazenovia, in the county of Madison, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvmmmts in 'lypographic Numbering Machines, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and-exact description.

'lhis-invention relates to certain improvements in typographic numboring-machines to be used in connection. with a printing-' press and in which one or more type orgroups of type are brought into position to.

make their impression upon a suitable impression-receiving piece or pieces, such as a sheet or strips of card or paper.

The specific object is to provide an ordi nary prmtingpress with means whereby a series of type or groups of type may be automatically selected and ad usted to print numbers of an denominations consecutively or regressive y and to enable such numbers printed simultaneously in duplicate or as many times as may be desired. It is ob vious, however, that instead of using numbering-type they may be substituted by other characters or combinations of characterssuch as letters, syllables, words, and, in fact any characters or symbols which it may be esired to print in sequence.

One of the essential purposes of my invention is to control the position of the several type by means of an mtermittingly advancing pattern sheet or strip of paper or equivalent material and to synchronize. the movement of such pattern with th'at of the typeactuating mechanism, sothat certain apertiures in the pattern may be brought into registration wit their corresponding selecting-pins and temporarily stopped to allow the pins to enter the registering apertures and determine the succeeding movement of the type-bearing elements, after which the printing-type and impression-receiving elemen are'brought together to produce the desired impression or series of prints, as the case may be.

Other objects and uses will be brought out in the following description.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a typographic numbering-machine mbod 'ngt cessential features of m yinventiqn'. 1g. 2 is a top plan of the same, and

Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view taken on line :1: y of Figs. 1 and 2 looking in the direction indicated by arrow a.

The machine herein illustrated is adapted to print any number or combination of numand hundreds, from 0 to 999, inclusive, and to simultaneously print the same number two or morein this instance three-times upon different partsof the same impression-receiving sheet or st'ri cards. It will be evident, however, from the following description that numbers of higher denominations or combinations of an indefinite number of other characters 'may be printed and du licated at each printing operation by simp y increasing the number of t pe-wheels in each group and multiplying t e number of groups-of such type-wheels and their controlling mechanisms, as may be desired.

In order to clearly demonstrate the pr acticability of my invention, 1 have shown a pattern strip or sheet 10 as provided with a plurality of longitudinal groups of perforations 12, 13, and 14, which are cut in the central body of the pattern'at predetermined inter- ,needles and t pe-wheels presently described, said pattern wing also provided near its opposite edges with parallel lengthwise rows of apertures 11, which receive radiai pins or teeth 15 of arotary feeding-drum 16, whereby tive y and uniformly in synchrony with the movements of other parts of the machine. This drum 16 is actuated intcrmittingly to advance the pattern strip or sheet 10 step by step'a predetermined distance at each operation, and for this purpose I provide the drum 16 with a ratchet-wheel 42, which is engaged and rotated one toothed space at a time by means of a awl 48, which 18 mounted upon a concentrica lv-movable bell-crank 43 and is yieldingly held in engagementwith the teeth of the ratchet-wheel by means of a s ring 48. The bell-crank 43 is oscillated ii forth against the action of a spring 46 by means of a cam 45, which is secured to a roarm of the bell-crank to whichthe pawl 48 is pivoted, the cam 45 having sufficient eccentric throw to rock the bell crank 43 and its vals to control the action'of the selecting.

pawl 48 one tooth-space of the ratchet-' here of one, two, orthree figures, as units, tens,

or upon dlfl'crent strips or the attcrn strip or sheet is advanced posiack and tary shaft 49 and engages a roller 44 upon the position at each wheel 42 against the action-of the spring 46, which returns the bell-crank to it s starting cycleof operation of the cam 45. The pattern sheet or strip 10 is preferably drawn in a-horizontal able frictionally-retar ed rollers 41, which tend to keep the operating part of the pat tern taut as it is advanced by the drum 16.

The apertures 12, 13, and 14 of each group are spaced apart longitudinally a distance equal to'the step-by-ste'p movement of the pattern-sheet, so that each sriccessive'perforation of each group is advanced=to a certain position at each successive operation of the ceding-drum 16.

Mounted in the frame 47, one above the other, are a series of transverse perforated bars 17, 18, and 19, in which are loosely fitted a series of groups of vertically-movable needles 20, 21, and '22, one group for each group of erforations 12, 13, and 14, respectively, eac group com risin a series of, in this instance, ten nee les,.w 'ch are arranged in a straight transverse line side by side and are so placed as to register with the apertures in the pattern-sheet with which they are associated as said pattern-sheet is advanced step by ste that is, the needles 20 of one group are a anged in one transverse line to register with the a )ertures 12, while the needles 21 of the next a j acent group are arranged in a different transverse line to register with the-a ertures 13, and the needles 22 are disposed 111' another transverse strai ht line to register with the apertures 14. iiach needle is provided with a collar or shoulder 23 and a compara'tively li ht coil-spring 24, which encircles the needlebetween the shoulder 23 and transverse bar 17, each sprin r operating to depress its needle with its shou der 23 resting upon a vertically-movable transverse bar 25, which serves as a yoke to elevate all of the needles simultaneously against the action of their springs 24 and also to permit said necdles to be simultaneously depressed by their respective-springs, said yoke 25 bein guided in its vertical movement upon suitab 0 guiderods 26, Figs. 1 and 3.

A series of groups of type-wheels 27 are rotatingly mounted u )on a transversely-mov able carriage 29, each group comprising a series of, in this instance, three concentricallyarranged type-wheels of substantially the same diameter, each group being arranged side by side one in advance of the other transversely of the machine a sufficient distance apart to permit the wheelsof each group to rotate freely without friction with those of the next adjacent group. Each type-wheel is provided with a series of, in this instance, ten peripheral numbering-type arranged, consecutively, from 0 to 9," J' "lusive, making in all ten characters corrc; leading to the 6 5 number of needles in each group. The type osition between suit-- vided with progressively-increasing denominationsin,

this instance, units, tens, and hundreds-thc wheels for printing numbers of like denomination of eachgrou being arranged in transverse alinement an are connected for simultaneous action by'transverse toothed racks 28, which mesh with gear-teethf27, rigid with their respective type-wheels 27. -I .t will now be seen that each type-wheel is pro ear-teeth rotati "therewith and that all 0 the units-wheelsc the several groups are actuated simultaneously by one of the toothed racks 28, the tens numbering-'8o wheels are simultaneously actuated by a second toothed rack, and the hundredsnumbering-wheels of all of the groups are actuated by a third rack, so'that when one t e-wheel is rotated to bring a certain type to t lie printing position the same type of the similar wheels of the other groups are also brought to the printing position, whereby the same character or number is printed, in this instance, three times. These racks 28 are slidably mounted in suitable ways, one in advance of the other upon the carriage 29, directly beneath the lower ends 'of the needles and attern-strip,each rack being slidable endwise transversely of the machine in the.

same vertical plane as one of the groups of needles and is provided with a stop-shoulder or abutment 34, adapted to en age the need'le of its group which may he projected through one of the apertures in the pattern sheet or strip, as best seen .in Fig. 3. it is.

now obvious that the rack 28, which actuates the hundreds numbering t 'pe-wheels is con trolled by the needles of t e group 20, while the rack which actuates the tens numbering tvpe-wheels is controlled b the needles of the group 21, and the rack w ich actuates the units numbering type-wheels is controlled bv the needles of the group 22. It therefore follows that the apertures 12 in the patternsheet which are associated with the roup of needles-20 control the position of t e hundreds numberin -wheels, while the apertures 13, associated with the needles 21, control the degree of movement of the tens num'beringt;

wheels, and the apertures 14, co'acting wit the needles 22, control the position of the units numbering-wheels.

The carriage 29 is .reciprocated transvcrsely of the machine and pattern-strip a distance equal to or slightly greater than the collective width of one of the groups of,

needles 20, 21, and 22 by means of a cam 33, which is secured to the rotary shaft 49 and is provided with a circumferential cam-groove 33, which receives a roller 32 on the carriage 29, the axial throw of the cam-groove 33 groups of needles, and the abutments 34 are 'being, therefo re, equal to or slightly greater than the transverse width of one of the consequently normally spaced apart trans verselg of the machine a similar distance at one side itsicorresponding' group of needles.

. Each rack 28 is yieldingly connected to the carriage 29 by a separate spring31 of sufficient tension to advance thera'cks as the carriage is moved hack and forth by the cam 33, so

that the racks and carriage move as a unitary structure except-as each rack may he re retarded in its action by the engagement of one of the depressed needles with its corre spouding abutment 34.

The main-driving Shaft 49 is provided with a suitable sprocket-wheel 30, to which rotary motion may be imparted from any available source ofpower, (not necessary to herein illustrate or describe,) and to this shaft is secured athird cam or eccentric 35 ,'Which engages a. roller 36 upon the freeend of an oscillatory arm 7, the opposite end of said arm being secured to a rock-shaft 38 on the front end of the main supporting-frame 47. A second arm 39 is secured to the opposite end of this shaft 38 and has its free end extended rearwardly and connected by a link 40 to one end of the yoke ;"the other end of said yoke being 'eonnected'by a similar link to the intermediate portion of the rock-arm 37 which is .locate at the opposite side of the main '30 frame. It is now apparent that at each cycle of rotation of the eccentric or cam 35, the

I arms 37 and 39 are oscillated vertically to resuflicient to ciiuse the yoke 25 to enga e the 9: apertur'es 12, 13, or 14 which mav he regise Zciprocate the yoke 25 alimited distance'inv 4 the same direction through the medium of the links 40, the throw of the cam 35 being abutments 23 and elevate all of the need es 20, 1, and 22 clear of the pattern strip or sheet 10 and to allow such needles to be depressed by their respective springs through any of the tered with said needles and into the path of movementof the abutments 34 of, the racks 28, so that as the carriage 29 is advanced in have been projected through apertures in the the direction indicated by arrow :1: the racks 28 will be similarly advanced until the abutments'34 encounter any needles which may pattern-strip, whereupon the further ad- ,va'nce movement of the rack thus engaged is arrested, while that carriage 29 continues to 'the limit of its movement against; the action of the springs 31.

'Thepattern-strip 10 is inserted and fed between the bars 18 and 19, between the lower 'ends of the needles 20, 21; "and 22, and upper endsof'theabutments 34, the feed of the pattern-strip -being intermittent and synchronizcd with'the verticaimovement of the yoke 25 'in such manner that the pattern-- strip is advanced one step to ing one of the apertures-]2,"13,'or14 of. each group into registration with the corr spondin needle or needles of the groups i '21,:111 22 the fur ther' movement of the pattern-s rip is tent wardly againstthe type-wheels 1n any we lporarily arrested, during which time the yoke 25 is depressed to allow the needle or needles to descend upon the pattern-strip or through its apertures which may be in registration with'certain needles. Immediately succeeding the depression of the oke 25 the car:- riage 29 is advanced in t e direction indicated by arrow x, thereby advancing the racks 28 through the medium of the s rings 31 until such racks are arrested by t 1e engagement of the abutments 34 with certain ins or needles which may have been proected through registering'apertures in the pattern-stri 10.' This advance movement of each me 28 causes the rotation of one of the type-wheels 27 of each group to bring the same numbering-type of such wheels into the same plane, after which the im ressionreceiving piece as A, and ty e-W reels are brought together by any suitab e mechanism 8 5 (notnecessary to herein illustrate or describe) for making an impression upon said impression-relceiving piece A. Thisprinting operation ma be effected by bringing the typewheels own upon the impression-receiving strip A or the latter may be pressed u known manner. It will be seen upon reference to Fig; 3 that. one pin or needle of each grou is shown by dotted lines'as depressed into t e path of-the shoulders 34 that is, the last needle of the 'series of theunits group'22, the fourth needle of the tens' series-21, and the sixth needle from the end of the'hundreds series 20 are the pattern-stri 10 and are engaged by the abutments 34 0 their respective racks 28 as the carria e 29 is advanced in the direction indicated y arrow as. It therefore follows that the en 'agement of the abutment 34 of the hundre s-rack with the in or needle of the hundreds group 20 will; a vance the hundreds type-wheels of each group six points-to bring the printing-type 6 of each hundredswheel into the same printing plane, while the engagement of the abutment 34 of-the tensrack engaging the needle of the tens group will cause the rotation of the tens typewheels of all ofthe groups to advance four points, bringing their type-numbers 4 to thesame printing plane, and the shoulder 34 of the units-rack will engage with the needle of the units roup and cause the units typewheels of alf of the groups to advance one space or point, thus bringing the ty e-nurnher 1 of each unit-wheel into t e same printing plane, so that when the'type-wheels and impression-receiving strip or strips are brought together the numeral 641 Willibe or impressed or printed in three different places uoon said record-receiving strip or strips. The operation of bringing the type-wheels and record-receiving strips together may effected automatically or by any other means.

projected through registering apertures in as soon as the carriage 29 has been advanced to the limit of its movement by the cam 33, after which said cam operates to return the carriage to its starting position, during which i 1. In a typo aphic numbering-machine, i

an intermitting y-movable pattern strip or sheet,-a plurality of t e and means controlled by the pattern-s set for causing the same or different type to be successively.

brought to the same printing position at each successive movement of the pattern-sheet, said means including a sliding member-and se arate devices for stopping said member in di erent positions.

2. In a machine of the class described, a printing-wheel having -a pluralit of type ar ranged in sequence on its perip ery, means for rotating the type-wheel to successively bring each type to one and the same printingpoint, a perforated pattern, and a series of separately-act' selecting devices, each movable throng one of the perforations of thepattern to engage and stop the type-wheelactuating means.

3. In a machine of the class described, a group of separately-rotatable type-wheels, se arate mechanisms for rotatin said t ew eels, a perforated attern and a plura ity of series of separate y-acti selectin devices, one series for each of t e type-w eelactuating mechanisms, each of said devices being adapted toenter one of the perforavtions of the pattern to engage and stop one of the type-wheel-actuating mechanisms.

4. In a machine of the class described, a

carriage and means to reciprocate the same, a

type-wheel on the carriage having a series of type thereon, a attern sheet or strip and means controlled thereby for rotating the type-wheel a predetermined degree during its forward movement with the carriage.

5. In a machine of the class described, a type-wheel having a plurality of type and gearteeth, a carriage for the type-wheel, means to actuate the carriage, a rack meshing W ltllVSBld gear-teeth moving with the carri'age to rotate the typewheel,-a pattern sheet or strip and separate devices controlled thereby for arrcstin the movement of the rack at a redetermine? point in its travel whereby t e ty e-whee is caused to rotate apredetermine degree.

6. In a machine of the class described a reciprocatol'y carriage, a type'wheel journa'l'ed on the-carriage and provided with a I pluralitv of type arran ed in sequence upon i 1 1 its periphery, gear-teet i rigid with the typewheel, a rack meshing with the gear-teeth, and yleldingly connected to the carriage a pattern sheet or strip andinieans controlled thereby for engaging and arresting the rack durin the forward movement of the carriage a predetermined type to the printing-point. 7. In a machine of the class described, a reciprocatory carriage and its actuating means, a group of type-wheels rotatingiy i mounted on the carriage and each having a plurality of t pe, and gear-teeth rigid there with, toothe racks each meshing with the l i i i i where y the type-wheel is adjusted to bring i i l i gear-teeth of one of the typo-wheels and' yieldingly connected to the carriage to move therewith, movable stop devices each adaptment of one of the racks during the forward movement of the carriage, whereby the typewheels are separately adjusted to bring one of their type to the printinfi-point, and a pattern sheet or strip contro ing the action of said devices. r

8. In a machine of the class described, a reciprocatory carriage, a type-wheel rotatingly mounted on the carriage and provided with a plurality of type and gearteeth rigid therewith, a rack meshingl with said gearteeth and moving with t e carria e, said rack being loose upon and yieldingy connected to the carriage and provided with an abutment, a stop movable into and out of sheet or.strip controlling the action of said sto ii. In a machine of the class described, a reciprocatory carriage and its actuating means, atype-wheel rotati ly mounted u on the cam e and provid with a series oi type each a apted to be brought to the same printing-po1nt by the rotation of the wheel, said type-wheel being provided with a loose upon but movable with the carriage and meshing with said teeth of the typewheel, a series of movable stops correspondwheeland each adapted to be move into engagement with the rack to arrest its movement duri the forward movement of the carriage ant a pattern strip or sheet controlling the action of the said stops.

wheel rotatingly mounted on the carriage and provided with a plurality of type, amovable stop'and means engaged there y during the forward movement of the carriage for rotating the type-wheel, and a pattern sheet or strip controlling the action of the said atop.

tion with a group of separately rotating'typeed to engage and arrest the advance movethe path of the said abutment, and a pattern series of concentric teeth, a toothed racking in number to the number of type on a 10. In a machine of the class described, a.

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carriiigefand its actuating means, a type- 11. In a machine of the class described, a carriage and its actuating means in combinahas 13. Ina machine wheels mounted a carriage and its actuating means, a group of separately otatable typewhee mounted on the carriage and eachprovided with a plurality of type-separate abutments moving e-a'nd each operatively con eswheels, stops movable-into and out of t e path of said abutments, and a pattern sheet or strip control'-. the action of said stops,

of the class described a iseries. of type-wheels mounted on se arate faxes and each provided with a plura 'ty of type, means for shifting said axes simultane- 'ing-of the type- 5 fm'ciprocatory ously in the same direction, a mbvabltbp and means engaged thereby during the shiftwheel axes for rotating said type-wheels simultaneously through e ual arcs, and a attern strip'or sheet controlling theaction 0 said stop.

1'14. In a machine of the class described, a carriage and its actuating nleans,'a type-wheel rotatingly mounted on the carriage and provided with a plurality I of numbering-type consecutively arranged 7 upon its periphery, ear-teeth rigid with the g type-wheel, 35

a rack oosely mounted on the carriage and meshing with said gear-teeth, a spring connecting the rack to the carriage,-an

utment rigid with the rack, a series of stops movable into and out of the ath of the said abutment and a perforate pattern-sheet controlling the action of the said stops.

'15. In a machine of the class described, a reciprocatory carriage and its actuating means, a group of type-wheels rotatingly connect' mounted upon the'same axis on the carriage and each provided with numbering-type consecutively arranged upon its periphe each type-wheel be provided with gear-teeth, separate toothe racks loosely mounted on the carriage and each meshing with the gearteeth of one of the t e-whee s, rings each one of t e racks to t e carriage, said racks eing each provided with an abutment and separate groups of sto s one group for each type-wheel, the stops 0 each group being movable into and out of the pat one of the abutments, and a perforated pattern sheet or strip controlling the action of the said stops. I

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16.- In a machine of the class described, a reciprocatory carriage, separate type-wheels rotatingly mounted upon the carriage in substarliltia ly the same transverse p ane and eac plura ity of t e, a rack meshing with the ear-teeth of a of the said type-wheels and oosely mounted on the carriage to move therewith, said rack being provided with an abutment, agroup of stops arranged at different distances from t e abutment and movable. into and-out of its path, and a perforated pattern-sheet controlling the action of said stops.

17. In a machine of the class described, a reciprocatory carria e, a plurality of groups of type wheels rotatmgly mounted upon t e c a rriage and each provided with a p uralit of type, each type-wheel being rovided with concentric gear-teeth, a plura ity of teethwith, each rack meshing with the gear-teeth of one of the type-wheels of each group and provided with an abutment, separate grou s of stops those of each grou being movab e into and out 'of the path of t e movement of one of the abutments, and a perforated pattern strip or sheet controlling the actionof said stops.

18. In a typographic numbering-machine, a t e-carrier, means to actuate the carrier to ring each type to the same printingpoint, a pattern and a series of separatelyactuating selecting devices controlled by the pattern to engage and stop the actuating mechanism for the type-carrier,

19. In a machine of the character described, a type-wheel having-a plurality of type, means'torotate the type-wheel to bring each type to' the same printing-point, a pattern. an a series of se arately-actuating selecting devices contro ed by the pattern to engage and stop the type-wheel-actuating means.

20. In a machine of the character described, a rotary type-wheel and actuating meanstherefor, aperforated pattern, a series of separately;actuating selecting devices controlled by such pattern to enter the perforations therein and engage and stop the typewheel-actuati means.

i In witness w creof I have hereunto set my hand on this 1st day of November, 1905.

JAMES A. LOYSTER.

Witnesses H. E. Criasri,

Howann P. Dawson.

racks mounted on the carriage to move thererovided withVgear-teeth and-with a 

